Crystal Lake · Licensed center
Crystal Lake Head Start
- Medium center, licensed for 105 children.
- Shortlist has found no website for it yet.
What the state has found
The state cited rules at 3 of its 5 licensing inspections since April 2015.
Of the 130 Chicago-area centers with 5 licensing inspections, 13% had rules cited at 3 of them, as this center did. 45% had rules cited at all 5.
Licensing inspections
Apr 14, 202610 citations
Enrollment and Discharge Procedures
89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.250(i)(1)(e)
Enrollment and Discharge Procedures
89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.250(i)(1)(b)
Enrollment and Discharge Procedures
89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.250(i)(1)(c)
Daily Arrival and Departure of Children
89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.260(f)
6 more from this inspection
Enrollment and Discharge Procedures
89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.250(i)(1)(h)
Health Requirements for Children
89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.310(a)(5)
Napping and Sleeping
89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.350(c)
Physical Plant/Indoor Space
89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.370(e)(6)
Personnel Records
89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.120(a)(1)
Health Requirements for Children
89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.310(a)
Mar 21, 20162 citations
Outdoor Play Area
89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.390(f)
Outdoor Play Area
89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.390(l)
Apr 13, 20151 citation
Diapering and Toileting Procedures
89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.340(a)(1)
Read every record and the state’s reports
State record — Illinois DCFS
- Last visit
- April 14, 2026
- On file
- 5 visits since April 2015 — 2 cited nothing
- Fixed?
- The latest correction deadline was May 21, 2026. Illinois DCFS does not publish whether it was made.
- Most serious
- Illinois DCFS does not publish a severity level for a citation, so there is no most-serious to name.
Illinois DCFS cites each subsection of a rule separately, so one audit of a filing cabinet can produce ten citations. It publishes the rule’s title and a correction deadline, but no description of what was observed.
Apr 2026 Monitoring visit 10 findings
Monitoring visit · April 14, 2026
Enrollment and Discharge Procedures
4 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.250(i)(1)(b) through (h) · Violation corrected
89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.250(i)(1)(b) · 407.250(i)(1)(c) · 407.250(i)(1)(e) · 407.250(i)(1)(h)
Health Requirements for Children
2 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.310(a) through (5) · Violation corrected
89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.310(a) · 407.310(a)(5)
Personnel Records
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.120(a)(1) · Violation corrected
Daily Arrival and Departure of Children
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.260(f) · Violation corrected
Napping and Sleeping
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.350(c) · Violation corrected
Physical Plant/Indoor Space
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.370(e)(6) · Violation corrected on site
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 013729 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.
Mar 2016 Monitoring visit 2 findings
Monitoring visit · March 21, 2016
Outdoor Play Area
2 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.390(f) through (l) · Violation substantiated · Violation corrected
89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.390(f) · 407.390(l)
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 013729 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.
Apr 2015 Monitoring visit 1 finding
Monitoring visit · April 13, 2015
Diapering and Toileting Procedures
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.340(a)(1) · Violation corrected
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 013729 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.
Openings, child care subsidies, cost, hours and late pickup, teaching approach, ratios and staff, a typical day, and sick and biting policies aren’t on this page.
Details
- Address
- 76 W Crystal Lake Ave
- License
- license issued (il)
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All checked August 2026.
State record
From Illinois DCFS’s published reports, last checked October 10, 2026.
Details
- Phone, Address, License sunshine.dcfs.illinois.gov/…/ProviderLookup.aspx. To check it, open sunshine.dcfs.illinois.gov's Licensed Provider Lookup, enter "CRYSTAL LAKE HEAD START" under Provider Name and 60014 under Zip, and press Search (DCFS provider 013729).
Medium means the middle half of Chicago-area’s 1,949 licensed centers by state-licensed capacity: 49 to 118 children. Small is 8 to 48; large is 119 to 487.